actually, starting price in china is about the same as X’s starting price in America.
I doubt that Tesla will care. And anything that will make American car makers start sweating will make Germany’s and Japan’s sweat as well.

This is probably one important reason why China decided to lower their tariff on cars imported to China. Their car industry is now mature enough to start to massively export and best they could do to built good will for those future exports is showing the example of how they expect to be commercially treated.

it had nothing to do with it. China was hoping to kowtow to Trump and get the coming trade war to stop.
But, you are right that China needs to be able to export. As it is, America alone has far more ppl than China that can afford the 68K NIO. Add in Europe, Canada, Australia, Japan, etc and you are looking at a market 3-4 x the size of China.

Kona is a compact SUV with only 150 kW motor, do 0-60 in 7 seconds in the long range version. Short range has only a 100 kW motor and 0-60 in 9 seconds. The ES8 has a 480 kw motor, can seat 7 passengers and do 0-60 in 4.4 seconds. It’s a much larger vehicle, more like a Model X in size.